BACKGROUND Health professionals play a key role in the prevention and treatment of excess weight and obesity, but many have expressed a lack of confidence in their ability to manage obese patients with their delivery of weight-management care remaining limited. The specific mechanism underlying inadequate practices in professional weight management remains unclear. The primary purpose of this s...

BACKGROUND There is no special instrument to measure skills-based health literacy where it concerns infectious respiratory diseases. This study aimed to explore and evaluate a new skills-based instrument on health literacy regarding respiratory infectious diseases. METHODS This instrument was designed to measure not only an individual's reading and numeracy ability, but also their oral commun...

Holism is an ancient theory that can be applied contemporarily to adolescent health and its determinants. This theory suggests that there is value in considering factors that influence health together as integrated wholes, in addition to consideration of individual components. Characteristics of families are fundamental determinants of health and provide opportunity for exploration of this theo...

Problem and goal. The teacher is a key figure in ensuring the constructive use of mobile devices by students learning process. His competencies attitude to introduction innovations play significant role not only educational results schoolchildren, but also formation their digital competencies. However, (hereinafter – MD) as tools perceived teachers rather skeptically. In this regard, study prob...

This study aimed to develop the Learning Management Systems Evaluation Scale (LMSES) with reference Transactional Distance Theory (TDT). At first stage of scale development, it was observed that 19 items three factors explained 63.73% total variance. The variance amounts by are Dialogue (D=8 items, 23.06%), Structure (S=7 25.74%), and Autonomy (A=4 14.93%). As a result confirmatory factor analy...

Introduction: Since the announcement of start SARS-CoV-2 vaccines development, many myths and vaccine opponents have come to fore. Therefore, in this scenario, it is imperative an instrument assess population perception subject matter. Objective: To validate a scale measure acceptance. Methods: This instrumental multicentre study, through which list possible reasons for whether or not people wo...

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An alternative for determining an accurate major prospective high school students is not only based on academic scores but also the results of scholastic aptitude test (SAT). Verbal ability SAT subtest that assesses language management, vocabulary, and problem-solving abilities through a complete study. This study developed verbal instrument junior consisting synonyms, antonyms, analogies. The ...